I am not surprised they themselves have developed an easier way to mix and match videos to help people create their own playlist.
My big surprise is that is has taken so long for something so obvious.
I wonder if someone at YouTube saw Ibizaah! and found inspiration to create this new side service from it.

I think YouTube Disco has done a great job to simplify playlist creation. You can do basically all the stuff you already can with Ibizaah! except for mixing videos and fading sound between players.
YouTube Disco has only one player which is fine to have music play continuously as well, maybe not as smoothly as with Ibizaah!’s AutoDJ feature which does an automatic crossfade between two videos smoothly.

At this moment it seems to only load playlists from the logged in user only unlike Ibizaah that allows users to load anyone’s playlist.
I’ll be playing around with it more to see if there is anything I could use in Ibizaah to make it even better.

He had some nice words for me, not a lot but really meaningful to me, that so early, cool people are noticing my work. According to Vincent I am a brilliant creator and very fast at doing this. I imagine doing this means programming Ibizaah! in one week and getting over 30 blogs reviewing it in less than 2 weeks after release, and all of that for just a side project!

On Vincent’s own words:

Michael, i think you are a brilliant creator. Great fast way to do this. We have created yubby.com, 30 video sides and channel builder tool. Do not know what we can do together but wanted to introduce myself.

Sincerely

VIncent Everts
CEO Yubby

Here is a nice Yubby logo for being so nice to me:

Yesterday I created a embbeddable Flickr Flash slideshow and today I got fancier and combined Cooliris and iShowU to record my screen.
I uploaded the video to YouTube and used their audioswap feature to lay down an awesome track.

Here is the result:

Thanks Cooliris for creating ans awesome 3D browsing plugin.

This simple act of generosity really did my day and also was perfect to see if the Paypal button actually works.
David noted that the exchange rate from Euros to Canadian dollars turned out to be on his favour, so $10. CAD turned out to be only about 6 Euros.

Thanks David!

You can see the article here: Click to See article

Ibizaah! got 3.7 out of 5 which is pretty good considering this is a side project. They also had some nice words about the product and again a nice tag line to go with their blog post.
The tagline was: “Turn Your Living Room into a Dance Floor“.

And here is the article preview screenshot:

Bloggers now how important are their article titles to catch people attention, so when they describe a product they usually put the name of the product and a catchy phrase that describes it too.
In this case the tag line they used was “Ibizaah.com – Get The Party Going“.
See? I had not think of that.. now I think is an awesome tagline for Ibizaah!.
Every day I learn new things.. cool.

Here is a screenshot of their article.

Here is the badge they ask you to put on your site after they review your site:

Soon I will also add the option to save your playlists back to YouTube directly form Ibizaah!.

Here is a screenshot of the loaded playlists screen:

Anyway, like most people in Spain, Zigor has always enjoyed having house parties since he moved out of his parent’s home. Since YouTube went live 4 years ago, Zigor and friends always ended up playing tunes from YouTube at these parties and struggled to keep continuous playback since they had to switch from window to window to search and play more videos.

When I released Ibizaah! last week I killed that problem once and for all, but Zigor, my main Beta tester, suggested to have an automatic option to crossfade between songs so he or whoever was DJing could take breaks and still have continuous music playing.

Today, that issue has been also dealt with with the introduction of the Auto-DJ button. Just press it, sit back, take a break, join the dance floor, take a pee break, or whatever. With the Auto-DJ button, as long as there are songs queued on both playlists, Ibizaah! will automatically cross fade and loop through all the songs forever. When you are back from your break you can switch the Auto-DJ button off and take over the DJing again.

Here is a demo video explaining how the Auto-DJ button works:

]]> http://ibizaah.com/blog/let-ibizaah-dj-for-you-introducing-the-autodj-button/feed/ 0 http://ibizaah.com/blog/ibizaah-is-born/ http://ibizaah.com/blog/ibizaah-is-born/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:33:27 +0000 Migs http://ibizaah.com/blog/?p=1 Have you ever used YouTube to DJ at a party and found frustrating having to change among windows while searching for the next song?
Basically, if you are listening to a song on YouTube, you cannot search for another song within the same window without interrupting that song, unless you open another window. Not that that is a real issue for most people, but for some (like me) it is a little annoyance. Anyway, I decided to take a break from coding last week and decided to .. code some more, but this time, for leisure not for work (and one day I’ll get a life too.. hehe).

I started coding last Monday and yesterday I finished Ibizaah!.
Ibizaah! lets you search and play YouTube videos at the same time within the same window. You can also add your search results to a left or right playlist, cross fade sound across videos, and reorder playlist order by drag and drop.
Eventually, I would like to allow users to save their playlists, share them, and even load them from their YouTube accounts.

Go give it a spin at the next party and let me know how it goes!

Here is a screenshot:

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